Sentence examples for divisive performance from inspiring English sources

In a spell-binding and often divisive performance, Friedman offers a solution to the world's pain – a philosophy reflecting Kierkegaard's story of an ancient torture device, Phalaris's bull, that turned the terrible sounds of pain into music.

Six months after the performance artist Ann Liv Young was at the center of a divisive performance at MoMA P.S. 1, the museum on Tuesday granted her request to return, Ms. Young and the museum said.

One of his staunchest allies during his presidency, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, was especially furious with Mr. Clinton over what he and many others believed to be a divisive performance in the approach to the South Carolina primary.

His comrades include best friend and mentor, Duane (the great Steve Zahn, whose ravaged face recalls Steve McQueen's in "Papillon"), and "Gene from Eugene Jeremy Davieses, in a boldly stylized, sure-to-be-divisive performance), a longhaired, emaciated redneck whose cadences and gestures suggest a deranged skid row preacher.

But two divisive debate performances and a dozen sexual harassment allegations later, this weighted extrapolation of polling saw his predicted chances sink as low as 13%.

He wasn't alone in finding her performance divisive.

"They are working under huge pressure because of years of Tory cuts and a demoralising, divisive and counterproductive performance management system," the spokesperson said.

In truth, maybe her performance was divisive.

On Sunday during his keynote address at the Nation of Islam's Savior's Day event in Detroit, Farrakhan responded to the massive backlash from police unions which have threatened to boycott Bey's "Formation World Tour" after deeming her Super Bowl halftime performance as divisive.

On Sunday during his keynote address at the Nation of Islam's Savior's Day event in Detroit, Farrakhan responded to the massive backlash from police unions which have threatened to boycott Bey's "Formation World Tour" after deeming her Super Bowl halftime performance as divisive.

Allardyce was so unenthused by his early dealings with the FA's head of performance, Dave Reddin, a divisive figure behind the scenes, the next few months could easily have seen a power struggle developing.